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3 O’CLOCK P. M. MAY «J, 185 H.
Notice to Advertisers.
Advertisements for the Evening Dispatch must
be handed in by eleven o'clock in the forenoon, in
order to appear the same day.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Dr. Hoynton.
On account of the inclemency of the
weather, the lecture of I)r. Boynton was
postponed until to-night, when it will
be delivered at Masonic Hall.
Campbell Mlulstrels.
This company performed last night to
a pretty fair house, “in spite of wind
and weather." appear again to
night.
Swan & Co’s. Lotteries.
We surrender a large portion of our
space this evening to the advertisement
of Messrs. Swan & Co., in reference to;
the late proceedings against them by!
Mayor Tikmann, and liis emissaries.— j
From the details of the prosecution <
thus far, It certainly appears that other
influences than a desire to rid tire coun-i
try of lotteries, has actuated the mq*e- j
ment. While a very large majority of
the people of Georgia regard Lotteries!
with disapprobation, and desire their
suppression, we are quite sure that they j
will look with proper contempt on any!
effort to injure them by the agents of!
rival companies, or of New York dema i
gogues. So long as the State charters
lotteries, just so long somebody will use I
the charters, and for our part, we know I
of no lottery, in Maryland, Jersey City ■
or elsewhere, having more gentlemanlyi
or enterprising managers than the
“Sparta Academy Lottery,” in this city.
With these remarks, we leave “the
lottery sensation in Georgia, ” to hide
the decision of the Courts, in whose
adjudication Swan & Co., will cheerfully
acquiesce.
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4 A Violent Storm.
| “ Look, from tire turbid South,
! What Hoods of tlame in red diffusion burst
- Frequ. ut and furious, darted thro’ tbe dark
And broken ridges of a thousand clouds,
Pil’d hill on hill; and hark, the thunder roused,
Groans in long roarings through Inc distant
gloom.’’
About dark last night a cloud of un
usual blackness made its appearance in
the Southern horizon. So rapid was its
progress and so threatening its “frown
ing front,” that store-doors were sum
marily closed, tete-a-tete s at the corners
were bioken off with the exclamation—
“lmust be getting home, before it
rains.” And he was lucky indeed who
reached his domicil before the “elemen
tal war'dissolved,” for it came on fast,
and furious—tearing up trees, shaking
the houses and drenching the earth as
with a flood.
This morning we noticed trees torn up
in all parts of the city, and tho side
walks were bestrewn with limbs and
houghs dislocated by the fury of the
wind.
Wheat and other grain in tho track
of the storm was blown down, and se
riously damaged. We have not heard j
the extent of country over which it
passed.
[communicated.]
Editor Dispatch: —ln your notice of
the fire on the Steamer Augusta, you!
Bay, it was communicated to the Pilot
House from IheKitchen. Thisisanerror;
there had been no fire in the kitchen for
seven or eight hours previous ; and if
there had been sparks, they could not!
have hlowed to the windward through
a roof to the Wheel House, and ignited
where this fire occurred—nor does any
one on board the boat know how to ac-1
count for its origin.
Steamer Augosta. !
[communicated. ]
While the thanks of the agent of the
Steamboat Company were being tender
ed to the firemen for their services, on
Thursday night last, we do think that,
as an incentive for citizens generally to
assist where they can be of service at
fires, the Impromptu Ducket Company ought
to have been noticed. Mr. Norrell,
Mr. Frank Frazer, Mr. Prouty and oth
ers, had the fire almost subdued when;
the first engine began to play on the I
fire. Empty Bucket.
Crops In Texas.
We have the pleasing satisfaction of
saying to our friends abroad that our i
troubles are about at an end, and thatj
the present prospect for big crops of
corn and cotton is as promising as one
could wish. The grasshoppers have!
nearly' all “vamosed the ranch,” and!
the late propitious rains have given the
replant such a fine start, that nothing
we know of now can prevent its rapid
growth and early maturity. The fields
are left in excellent condition by the
rains, and with the mild but strength
ening heat of the sun, and the almost;
entire riddance of weeds and grass,
every one is looking forward to an
abundant harvest. —Gonzales Enyuirer.
——
Weelily Line of Steamier* for Europe.
Mr. Vanderbilt, seeing the discredit
into which the Mail Steamship Marine
has fallen from the discontinuance of
the Collins’ line, has determined to run
a weekly line at his sole expense and
risk between New York, Southampton,
Havre and Bremen. He now advertises
the regular days of sailing of his fine
steamers “ Vanderbilt,” “North Star,”
“Ariel” and “ Northern Light,” and
is rapidly driving to completion his
magnificent new steamer “ Queen of the
Ocean,” to take a place in the same line.
The coming season bids fair for the
manufacture of both coarse and fine salt
Ut Syracuse and vicinity.
WHAT
From the X. Y Atlas.
The Georgia Lotteries of Swan Sc Co. I
INDICTMENT OF BENJAMIN WOOD !
OF THIS CITY AND THE REST OF 1
ITS MANAGERS BY A GEORGIA !
SPECIAL GRAND JURY-ALLEGA
TION THAT THE WHOLE MATTER
IS ILLEGAL-CARD OF MR. BEN- ,
JAMIN WOOD.
Considerable excitement has been ,
created during the past two days by the j
the announcement that Mayor Teimann (
had succeeded in obtaining the indict- (
ment of Benjamin Wood, of our city, .
by a special Jury, at Augusta, Ga., as \
one of the owners of an alleged illegal (
scheme known as the “Sparta Acade- -
my Lottery."
With questions of tbe legality or oth- .
erwisc, of the Sparta Academy Lottery, j
as it exists in Georgia, we don’t propose .
to meddle; but, when one of our rather ,
prominent citizens is indicted for a ,
criminal offence, we, as public journalists, ,
deem it our duty to lay such facts or ul- j
legations as bear upon his case before ;
! our readers.
From statements made to us, and of
the correctness of which we are satis- (
| fled, it appears that the State of Georgia
! granted to the Sparta Academy, in the
j year ]B2ti, the right to raise five thou
j sand dollars by lottery for educational
purposes. This grant lay for many
i years inert and useless for the purpose
1 intended, in consequence of the inabil
j ity of its corporators to carry out the
j object contemplated.
_ Some time ago, Mr. Wood, in connec
! tiou with parties in Georgia, purchas
! ed the privilege of drawing this lot
| tery, and contracted to pay the Sparta
| Academy the amount designated by the .
I act, in certain equal annual instalments, ,
j which have been punctually paid ; and ,
j it is further stated that all the prizes
j which were drawn by any purchasers
I of tickets, from time to time, have been
i promptly met, and the parties concern
| ed as owners and managers are entirely I
i responsible. ’Thus much of our infor-
I mation.
A perusal of the act of incorporation ,
certainly shows that the “trustees,” or ,
their “successors in office,” had aright ,
to raise the sum of five thousanddullars ,
by lottery, and the question as to •
whether a subsequent change of the .
State Constitution, declaring all lotte
ries illegal, could destroy a vested right, ,
is one which the Courts alone can dc- ,
cide. It certainly seems to us, that ,
our worthy Mayor is adopting the “lar- (
gest liberty" idea, in extending his in- |
vestigation of Statutory and Constitu- ,
tional provisions into other bailiwicks i
than his own. We are prepared to oo- !
operate heartily with him in all home
reforms which he may attempt, if they
be stop-ages of leaks at the bung rather
than the spiggot; but we honestly j
think he has all he can do here, in sup- .
pressing the vice which is so rife in our j
midst, without going to Georgia to re
form its abuses.
Thoie's a deal of humbug in this ,
word hidden underlie mask of reform, ,
and we arc sometimes inclined to think |
that even lottery schemes are no |
worse than stock brokering, or any one
of tiie thousand speculations into which (
men enter for the chances of making ,
money.
We learn that this Sparta Academy L
Lottery is still drawing, notwithstand |.
ing the indictment, and that its logali- f
ty is to be tested before the courts In
stead of breakingup the lottery concern,
we think the measures taken to effect!,
that object, will only serve to increase | (
the sale of tickets ; and we doubt is l!
$50,000 invested m the advertising, ,
would have conduced so much to the
interest of the managers as the publicity (
which has been given to the fact of t
their indictment. People who are sim* (
I pie enough to spend their money in ,
| lottery tickets, don’t much care wheth
ler the game is legalized or outlawed.— ’
All gambling is illegal, and yet gam- j
bling is a passion that will seek gratili- t
j cation in defiance of all laws. The at- (
tention of the whole “sporting’’ world .
| is now directed to Swan & (-o/s lotteries {
through the free advertising which f
| they have obtained from the move-;,
| ments of Mayor Teimann to suppress j
! them. *L
From what we have read, there cer-| f
I tainly appears to be two sides to the i*
! matter, which will give rise to nice |
| questions of law, notwithstanding the j
: summary action of the Georgia jury. I
Mr. Wood has published a card which (
! wc insert in justice to him, that he may |
have the benefit of his own version of .
this matter:
I CARD OF IRWfAMIN WOOD, OF NEW YORK.
A Card to the Public.—My atten- i
j tion has been called to a correspondence !
! between Mayor Tiemanu, Howell Cobb ;
; and the authorities of Georgia,upon the
subject of the Sparta Academy Lottery.
! My name is mentioned as one of the is
: owners of the Lottery. lam one of the |«
I owners, have paid the franchise,and the j
lottery has been created and sanctioned j
by the Legislature of Georgia,ant?is legal.
All my transactions with reference to :
the said lottery are consequently legiti- 1
mate, and the money has been prompt
ly paid to the Trustees of the Sparta
Academy, who are well known honora
ble men.
The Mayor of this city, in his mista
ken zeal to reform the morals of the
j people of Georgia,and inform them that
they do not know what laws are binding
and in force in their State, dispatches as '
j his agents for that purpose a convicted
thief, who had been on the treadmill '
in England, and as his associate in the
i embassy a man who refused to answer
the question as to whether be had been
accused of crime in Boston ; and bygiv
! ing them the sanction of his name, the 1
Mayor has introduced these characters iu- ■
! to the society of gentleman! One of;
these men receives S2OO per month from 1
an opposition lottery concern to protect
their interests in New York and to de- '
stroy rival concerns This fact is known
to MayorTiemann.
1 his attempt is made to injure me po-
I litically as well as to advance the inter 1
ests ot a Member of Congress from my
district. The facts in this case, and a
full expose of the motives and the reas
ons which induced Mr. Cobb to mix
himself up with this matter, will here
after be explained, and the public satis- 1
tied, that the ISparta Academy Lottery
is neither illegal, or the managers irre
sponsible ; but that the object of the 1
attack is purely a political one ; and
that I am the object of the attack ; else 1
why not take measures against the lot
teries of Delaware and Maryland '(
Benjamin W'ood.
New York, May 21, 1858.
From the New York Times.
The Mayor and Reform.
i Mayor Tiemann, in carrying out his ;
' views of municipal reform, has taken
measures to iutercept, we observe, a |
IS SAID
variety of letters addressed to newspu
per advestisers who do not always em
ploy, in business, their own names. He
has also, in conjunction with other par
lies, occasioned the publication of Mr.
Benjamin Wood (Ex-Mayor Wood’s
brother) as one of the owners of an
“illegal lottery” in the shape of the
Sparta Academy Lottery of Georgia.—
Wo believe he has taken no steps, as
yet, to interfere with the agents of the
Delaware and Maryland lotteries, upon
the drawn numbers of which the “poli
cy business of this city, every day, is
almost exclusively based. We presume
they will be readied in due course of
time. We understand that Benjamin
Wood frankly acknowledges that he is
regularly engaged in the purchase and
sale of foreign lottery franchises, but
insists that they arc legitimate in the
•States which grant them, and therefore
not illegal subjects of traffic here. The
question will probably be adjudicated
now by competent authority ; and as it
is one of considerable popular interest,
and tbe parties on both sides of the ac
tion are provided with ample resources,
we may anticipate an earnest contest.—
(See Woods, card, in another place.)
As regards the interception ami open
ing of other men s letters, on the plea
that tiie parties thus arbitrarily despoil
ed of their property are accused of ob
taining money by a false pretence, we
are clearly of opinion that Mayor Tie
manu and the post-office authorities
have overreached tho boundaries of
common equity. There is often but
one step from the just to tho despotic,
as well as from the sublime to the ridic
ulous, and we apprehend that it has
been approached in this instance. Such
acts look very like, if they arc not,
gross outrages on private rights, and, if
endorsed in cases of minor moment,
may lead to a repetition in cases of tiie
most serious consequence.
From the Ketc York Mercury.
Carrying tin- War info Cleor^la.
The Mayor of this city, in his zeal to
correct the vices of the day, and ascer
tain what is right and what is wrong,
tiie other day. dispatched an officer
connected with his “squad," to tiie
State of Georgia, charged to ascertain
if the lotteries of “ Swan & Co.” were
authorized or not.
That officer went on iiis mission, and
returned on Thursday, with a budget of
documents in his possession, which were
of a very equivocal character They
did not substantiate any “fixed fact;”
but left everything as was tiie case, in
the interview between the Duke of
Buckingham ami the citizens of London
assembled in Guildhall, “to inference!"
“Thus saith flic Duke, and thus the
Duke inferred.”
Mr Benjamin Wood, for himself, who
is one of the firm of “Swan & C 0.,” has
responded to the documents in question,
in a card which will be seen in another
place.
Mr. Wood, we understand, will con
test the affair, to which his card refers,
to the utmost limit of the law; and
hence, it is supposed, that there will be
had some very interesting develop
ments. In the meantime, it is well
enough to state that Mr. Wood purchas
sed, last, week, the Paducah Academy
lottery, of McCrackin County,Kentucky,
;and paid for the franchise eighty thous
| and dollars, giving bonds to the amount
of one hundred thousand dollars by a
! person justifying to treble that amount
;—a schedule of which property was
j sworn to before Mayor Tiemann, of this
city. It is legalised by tbe State of
j Kentucky, as the Sparta Academy Lot
j tery is by the State of Georgia.
Mr. Wood and his associates will un
doubtedly respond to all the demands
made on them; and the result will be
of tbe utmost importance to the com
munity.
It is somewhat singular, that the
Mayor of the city of New York should
find himself called on to take charge of
the affairs of the State of Georgia, ami
enlighten the executive and judicial de
partments of that state in reference to
their duties. He has recently received
from Boston commendatory expression
|of regard and veneration, and a “one
horse chaise” into tiie bargain : but it
was scarcely supposed that he would
iawaken the intelligence and patriotism
!of Georgia.
The Honorable Howell Cobb, Secre
tary of the Treasury, it appears, has
united with the Mayor of New York, in
the cause of reform, and is disposed to
facilitate the cause of “ morality ”
among us. * m
Mr. Cobb may, in the end, learn, that
New York is a very queer city; and
that lie who mingles in its politics, un
less he understands a double game, en
gages in a dangerous enterprise. The
| opinion of a governor, though endorsed
| by that of a state attorney, and tiie pre
sentment of a grand jury docs not de
;cide a question of right; and until the
action of Swan &,• Co passes the ordeal of
a trial by jury, the public will proba
bly withhold its judgment. The whole
affair under consideration is of a politi
cal, partisan character.
From the Augusta Dispatch of May 25.
The Georgia Lotteries In Yt \v York.
It seems that Mayor Tiemann, nothav
ing enough to do, to keep in check the
foul spirt of murder and general devil
ment which have been making New
York city a terror to citizens and strang
ers, has turned his attention to the sup
pression of what he is pleased to term
one of the bogus lotteries South.
It seems that he by some means was
led to believe that the charter under
which Swan & Co., of this city are ope
rating, had expired, and lie at once sent
an agent to this State to make investi
gations, and take proceedings against
i them. Sergeant Bieney it seems pro
! cured a letter of introduction from
j Howell Cobu to Gov. Brown, and the
Governor wrote to Col. McLaws, Solici
tor of this circuit,'expressing liis lios
; tility to lotteries, and urging him, if lie
! found this lottery or any other, to be
acting without authority of law, to
take steps for its suppression. Accord
ingly Bikney came to this city, and on
placing the information he had obtained
before the Grand Jury, indictments
were issued against ail the persons inter
ested in the lotteries of S. Swan & Co.
The parties all gave security, to ap
pear at the next term of court for trial,
and here the matter rests.
But the sensation papers of New York
attempt to make the impression that
the affair created great excitement in
Georgia. Nothing is farther from tho
truth, lor no paper iu the State had
noticed it, and we do not suppose one
hundred persons out of Augusta had
heard anything about the matter.
'1 he only sensation created here, was
the general impression of those who
saw anything of Bibney, that his self-
;conceit and impertinence entirely over
[ balanced his other qualities, and this
BY |
caused a number of our citizens, who
neither knew him or his mission, to;
write him clown an ass. It required no
sensation to do that.
From the Augusta Disjwtch of May 20.
The Lottery War.
The New York papers continue to i
present items of the late sensation crea
ted in Georgia by the mission of Mr.
Birney, the agent of Tiemann.
It seems from tin* “ cards’" that Ser
geant Birney made arrangements to
break up the “ Fort Gaines Lottery in
Savannah,managed by Anderson & Son.”
Now in the first place Anderson & Son j
do not reside in Savannah ; in the se j
cond place their lottery not thej
Fort Gaines lottery, and the third place j
we learn that Anderson & Son some time I
in April suspended business, and fourth.!
we learn from Mr. Anderson, now in
Augusta, that no attempt was made by
Birney to effect his charter. There
are reasonable doubts about this vali i
ant Sergeant having visited Savannah \
at all.
We yesterday intimated that the ap
pearance of Sergeant Birney was not ve-;
ry prepossessing. Here is what Mr. i
Wood, one of the firm of Swan Sc C 0.,!
says of him :
[See Mr. Wood’s card.]
We wish it understood that we are!
not the champion of Lotteries ; of them
and the chances they offer for gain, let i
every man be the judge. But when
men make themselves ridiculous, and
resort to imposture to injure enterprises
which our State has sanctioned, it may |
not be amiss to give both sides a hear
ing. What we have said has been 1
entirely voluntary, and without the
knowledge of Swan & Co., or their!
friends.
From the N. Y. Dispatch.
Mayor Tlema tin’s Ln*t Coup dc Etat.
The city was startled on Friday after
noon by the announcement, that
through the agency of Mayor Tiemann!
of this city, the Grand Jury of Hancock j
County Georgia, had indicated Messrs, j
Swan, Eddy, Wood,and their associated
Managers of the Sparta Academy Lotte
ry, on a charge of misdemeanor, for be-!
ing engaged in conducting an illegal '
lottery. Cur citizens were not a little
surprised at what appeared to be an 1
expose of one of the most impudent swin
dles of the day. Up to this develop
ment we had supposed that this Lottery
was conducted under an accordance 1
with the laws of the State of Georgia. 1
While the parties interested here deny > 1
most emphatically the charge of illegal- ' J
ity brought against them, we confess
that the matter has an ugly look on its 1
face. Under the circumstances of the '
case, however, we shall withold anyi :
comments which the nature of this,
transaction seems to call for at our'!
hands, until the parties thus suddenly!
and summarily arrested shall have had ]
an opportunity of defending themselves. -
In a card published in yesterday’s Her
ald, Mr. Benjamin Wood attributes this j
attack to the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles,
and claims that it is got up from per !
sonal and political motives. It is possi
ble that Mr. Sickles may have lent his;
aid in the matter,btit we think Mr. Wood
must look| to a very different quarter'
for the instigation of these proceedings!
against the Georgia Lottery. He will
find, when he gets at. the bottom of j
this crusade, that it’s the natural se- j
quence of events which have recently
transpired in this city.
We learn that Messrs. Wood and Ed
dy vvill immediately proceed, in person
to Georgia,to defend themselves asrainst j
this accusation. In the meantime
Swan & Co., as vvill appear from the fol
lowing Card, aunounce that they intend
to continue their business. Either
Messrs. Swan & Co. ,are very great knaves i
or Mayor Tiemann, Secretary Cobh, and!
the authories of Georgia, have done
them a very great injustice. It is a lit-!
tie singular that the authorities of |
Georgia, where these lotteries were
openly and publicly drawn and adver
tised, should never have discovered that;
they were in violation of law till their,
attention was called to the fact by the!
Mayor of New York. The precipitate
manner in which a special Grand Jury
was summoned to hear the testimony I :
of a New York Police officer, and the
undue haste with which the indictment!
was found, is also worthy of note, and
gives a good deal of color to the charge
made l>y Swan Sc Co., that the whole
proceeding is one originating in the
malice of business and political rivals.
The course of Messrs. Wood and Eddy
in promptly going to Georgia to meet
the charge, looks as l hough they be I
lieved themselves to be in the right* In
a few days, however, the matter will
he more fully developed, and enable us i
to decide this vexed question justly.
A Gakd from S. Swan & Co. — The extraordi
nary course pursued by the rival Managers oi
ditlerent Lotteries to injure us beca. se our liberal
schemes, and prompt mr nor of doing business
has materially affected them, compels us to call
special attention to the facts, which all who deal
with us know already. That is : that our Lot
teries arc legal, the muuagers and trustees hon
est aud honorable mon, that vve* have sold more
prizes in the last twelve months than all other
liOttc-ries in the Union, and that they have been
promptly cashed in all cases, on presentation.
The effort to injure us is aimed not only at our
business by our rivals, but is also intended to
act politically on one oi our partners : and we j
assure our friends aud the public that with our
concern all s riyht, and this, the legal investi '
gation which we shall urge to a hearing, will!
fully demonstrate. In the meantime, our busi- i
ness will be conducted as usual.
SAMUEL SWAN & CO.,
Lottery Managers, Augusta, Ga. j
P. S.—Any one doubting the responsibility ol
our firm, will Und, upou inquiring at the Broad-1
way Banks, of this city, that we have a balance |
of $50,000 io our credit, besides which we are
keeping bank accounts in six other cities in the i
United States
From the New York News. \
Fifty Thousand Dollars for AdvertL
litg.
Fifty thousand dollars paid for adver
tising would not have given Swan A Co. j
aud his Georgia lottery so great a no- j
toriety, or have drawn the attention of
so many people to it, as the Mayor's
police efforts and travelling agent in
the State of Georgia.to put it down. As
the whole tiling is a good deal more of
a political than it is a moral movement,
we should not be surprised if it made
and unmade the fortunes of several, if
not more.
From the Charleston Standard.
The New York Morning Express, of
Monday, contains four columns of ad
vertisements of Swan A Co.’s Lottery
at Augusta, Georgia. This is perhaps,
gotten up for MayorTiemann's benefit,
who claims the honor of having caused
the arrest of the proprietors, which it is !
intended shall result iu the breaking
up of the establishment. This grand
flourish of trumpets don’t look much
; like going into liquidation.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
“ Great Excitement In UeorglK.'
We are indebted to theNewYork Even-
THE
mg Post for the knowledge of “a great
' excitement in Georgia,” in relation to
the Sparta Academy Lottery. In this
city,where it is presumed the excitement
occurred, we understood the present
ments of the grand jury were for the
propose of testing the validity of the
j charter of the Sparta Academy Lottery,
and that the bonds required from Swan
A Co., were the initiatory proceedings
usually observed in entering upon a tri
al of the questions involved. The affair
created no “ great excitement ” here,
nor excitement of any kind, that we
heard anything about ; nor lias a single
i paper in this city, or this State, made
| any reference to it, so fill' as we have
; noticed.
We publish below the article to which
! we refer, and merely add, that the S/eirta
\ Academy Lottery under the management o f S.
j Swan & i* Co., continues its drawings as usual,
. nor have we noticed any interruption
j in the regular business operations of!
| their house.
The remarks in the Post, that it was
1 supposed by the officers of Georgia;
j that their lotteries were legal : but
: that Mayor Tiemann, upou examining
j the subject, discovered that they were
j not," will doubtless excite a smile,
i The New York Commercial Advertiser, in
| its reference to this “ great excitement
| in Georgia,” says that Sergeant Birney
! was sent by Mayor Tiemann as a special
j messenger to the Attorney General of
; Georgia to inform him that Swan A I Jo’s
j lottery was a fraudulent concern."
Such sneering allusions to the law
j officers of our State were altogether un
called for, and will not materially aid
I the parties engaged in this personal,
| political and financial war upou Fernan-
I do Wood, although it is adroitly cloak
j ed under the plausible and praiswortby
j pretence of promoting good morals anil
j suppressing lotteries.
From the New York Courier.
' Terrific Descent upon Lottery Dealers. !
Mayor Tiemann lias entered in earnest
uu the laudable undertaking of demo- i
lishing the lottery business in all parts j
of the earth, including the State of i
Georgia. When he was nominated and
elected to his high office the ostensible j
purpose his friends had in view was—i
first to defeat Mayor Wood, and then to
promote municipal reform. Mr. Tie-!
mann, however, takes a very different
Tiew of the subject. He has conceived !
the brilliant idea that he was elected to j
office for the express purpose of putting
an end to the lottery business in Geor
gia. Imagining that the Governor of j
that distant State don’t know much
about its domestic laws, he sends one
of our police officers down there to in- j
struct his Excellency in his duty to- ]
wards lottery dealers, and inform the,
public authoriities ot Georgia that, they j
have no right to permit lotteries to be \
drawn or managed within its borders.— j
The Governor takes it for granted that
the Mayor of New York ought to know
all about it, and follows his directions ; j
arrests half a dozen persons who imag
ined they were acting under the State
laws, and then sends off to New York j
to have a gentleman by the name ot
Wood arrested for breaking the laws of j
i the sovereign State of Georgia. There
| has been a little too much haste, we j
! think it will turn out in the end, shown |
by our Mayor and the authorities of;
j Georgia, if Mr. Wood lias actually ]
! transgressed the laws of that State, his!
I crime amounts only to misdemeanor
j and is not of such a magnitude as to j
render him liable to extradition. Anx !'
i ions as the M lyor may be to get rid of Mr. r
Wood, who threatens to go to Congress i
next year in the place of Dan Sickles, i
we fear that his Honor will not be nble
to ship him off to Georgia. The man
agers of the lotteries down there who
have been arrested, have been acting
under a charter granted by the State,
| and if the State iias been granting pri
, vileges which it had no right to issue,
then the State itself is the culprit, and
| not the innocent parties to whom they \
sold the privileges.
The whole history of this last lottery |
i coup of Mayor Tiemann is very curious, ;
and exhibits a degree of energy aud i
! promptitude nearly Napoleonic. It is
stated that about a fortnight ago His
Honor had dispatched Sergeant Birney, j
I to Georgia, armed witli a communica
tion to the Attorney General of tiiat ;
State. The authorities of Georgia had j
erroneously stated that their lotteries [
were in accordance with law, our Mayor
had come to a contrary conclusion.—
Somo time since, Mr. Swan wrote a let
i ter to Mayor Tiemann, thanking him in
j warm terms for his energetic action in
breaking up the bogus lotteries, and
j claiming that his ioitery (the Sparta
j Academy) was the only genuine affair.
| But somehow it happened that the au
thorities came to the conclusion that
the Sparta Academy affair was as
bogus as any that had been suppressed, i
The Mayor wrote to the Attorney-Gen- j
eral of the State of Georgia, under date j
of Aprils, 1858, stating that lotteries j
und games of chance were illegal in this
State, as declared repeatedly by the
Legislature ; and that notwithstanding
this, there had been agents for the sale
of tickets of the Georgia Sparta Acad
! erny Lottery, purporting to be drawn at
Atlanta, carrying on that business here.
| The Sergeant proceeded to Washington,
; where lie received a letter from Howell
I Cobb, addressed to Governor Brown.—
j He then went to Milledgeville—saw the j
Governor—who, upou investigation of j
| the matter, satisfied himself that Mayor j
| Tiemann was right. The Governor j
wrote to Mayor Tiemann, and promised j
1 to use every possible effort for the sup-'
I pression of this irregularity. Sergeant j
; Birney then went to Augusta, with let- j
iters for the Attorney-General. He was
not iu time to meet the Grand Jury,
: they having just adjourned, but on
Monday another Jury was summoned
; and assembled. Samuel Swan, Benja
! min Wood, Geo. I*. Eddy, owners of the
j lottery ; Frederick C. Barber, Leon F. I
Dugas, Commissioners, professing au
thority to draw, together with James
A. Eddy and Charles A. Lathrop, clerks,
were indicted, and tiue bills were found
against them. These persons were all
arrested, excepting Wood and Eddy, all
residing in Augusta, excepting Wood.
Mr. Eddy is believed to be now in New
York. The indicted parties were held
to bail in the sum of 82,000 on each in
dictment, (makiug SIO,OOO for each per
bob,) five bills being found against each.
The curious part of ail this business
is that tile Governor of Georgia should
have been so ignorant of the laws of his I
own state that both he and his Attorney
General ha ! to be instructed in their
duty by a paint manufacturer of New
; York. But, we shall see what it will all
come to by-and- bye. Mr. Wood and
i Mr. Eddy are now here. Mr. Wood is
a citizen of the state and in no imme
! diate danger of being sent to Georgia,
in the custody of Sergeant Birney or
PRESS.
any body else. Mr. Eddy. we believe, is
a nephew of John Paine, Eaq., of fifth
avenue, formerly a partner in the man
agement of the Rhode Island lotteries
with Mr. I’halon, who is at present in j
Europe. The small amount of bail
which the parties arrested in Augusta
were required to give is pretty good
proof that the affair is not regarded as a
matter of much importance bv Gover
nor Brown.
From the Savannah Heirs.
The Lottery Kzrltement.
The New Yoik papers are filled with
accounts of what they term a “great
excitement in Georgia/* in consequence j
of certain proceedings of the Mayor of'
I New York against the Sparta Academy
I Lottery of S. Swan Go. We were in
Augusta a few days since, and heard
that Messrs. Swan & Go., had been
presented by the Grand Jury of Rich- j
mond county, at the instance of Mayor
l'iemann, of New York, on a charge of
acting under a fraudulent charter. But i
we certainly discovered no evidences
of unusual excitement. We saw Sam-1
■el himself, looking as “cool as a cu
cumber. The Constitutionalist of yester
day morning, says:
The affair created no “great excite
ment” here, nor excitement of any
kind, that we heard anything about ;
nor has a single paper in this city or j
this State made any reference to it so j
far as we have noticed.
[After the statement from the New j
fork papers, with Mr. Wood’s card, 1
the editor adds:]
That our readers may determine in '•
their own minds whether the charter
under which Messrs. Swan & Co., are |
acting is a good one, we publish the or-1
iginat act of 1820 granting it. We learn I
that Messrs. Swan & Co., pay so ranch j
annually for the use of it:
AN ACT to authorize the Trustees of I
Sparta Academy in the county of
Hancock, to raise by lottery the sum
of five thousand dollars, for the ben-1
efit of said Academy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House J
of Representatives of the State of Geor- 1
\ gia, iu General Assembly met, and it is
; hereby enacted by the authority of the
isame, that the trustees of Sparta Acatl
jetny, in the county of Hancock, and
ttieir successors in office, be and they j
are hereby authorized to raise by lot- (
tery, a sum not exceeding five thousand !
! dollars, for the benefit of said Acad
emy. *•>
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
j That William Terrell, Robert W. AI- t
iston, Thomas S. Martin, Nathan C. !
Sayre, Thomas A. Smith, James H.
Jones and Joel Crawford, Esquires, or a
> majority of them, be and they are here- i
| by appointed commissioners to superin- j
j tend and conduct said lottery, and the j
I said commissioners are hereby author
i ize to divide said lottery into as many
! separate schemes of drawings as in
| their judgment shall best suit the in- j
terest of said Academy ; and any sum
i or sums of money which may be raised I
by said commissioners under and by
virtue of this act, after deducting the j
| necessary expenses of said lottery, shall
jbe by them paid over to tho trustees of j
said Academy for the use and benefit 1
thereof. *
I Assented to 23d Dec. 1820.
Wo are no advocate of lotteries, and
1 hope to see the day when no such
j tilings exist in our country. At the same
i time ire must say, in justice to Messrs. Swan
j.V Co, that wv believe them to be honorable,
[fair it eating gentlemen, ami incapable of per
jpetrating an intentional fraud upon the
J public. We have no feeling in the mat-
I ter, however, and merely add this as an
I act of justice.
Since writing the above wo have re
ceived the New York Herald, from
whoso report of this affair wo clip tho
following :
As soon as the above parties had been
arrested, Sergeant Birney went to Sa
vannah and tried to break up the Sort {
Gaines Lottery. The matter was placed
j in the hands of several of the city offi
cials of that city, and the proprietors,
| Messrs. Anderson & Co., arrested, but
; nothing, however, was done with them,
I they being soon discharged.
If the remainder of the Herald s re
port is to be judged of by the above -
paragraph, wo certainly cannot com
j mend it for its reliability. In the first j
, place, Messrs. Anderson & Son do not |
| reside in Savannah, but in Macon;
|in the second place, they have ne
ver been managers of the Fort
Gaines Lottery, but of the Jasper
County Academy Lottery, and, in the
third place, we do not believe that Mr.
Birney visited Savannah—else he would
have made the discoveries we have
above enumerated.
We learn from the Augusta Constitu
tionalist that the drawing of Swan's Lot
leries have never been suspended.
From the Georgia Citizen.
The Height of 1 Impudence.
We have never known a case of such
| unparalleled impudence, as that just
brought to light, of the attempt of the
Mayor of New York to teacli the au
thorities of Georgia, their duty, on the
subject of Lotteries. An official is sent
out to Georgia, armed with letters from
Secretary Cobb to Governor Brown, to
bring Messrs. Swan & Co., Lottery Deal
ers. to punishment, for alledged and
fradulcnt drawing of their lottery,
our erudite and recondite Governor falls
j info the trap aud lends a helping hand,
I officially, to this most outrageous piece
of impudent interference with our
[criminal jurisdiction.
We are no advocate of lotteries, but
jit was none of the business of this New
j York functionary to send a ruffian Po
j liceraan, personally, to bring offenders
I against our laws to justice. He had
[ the right to suppress Swan’s Lotteries,
|in New York, but he had no right to
desecrate Georgia soil with his presence,
j And, we feel humiliated with the rc
j flection that a Georgia Governor should I
j lend his influence in favor of a proseeu
j tion, which savors more of political
malice and private revenge against cer
tain parties, than a love of justice. He
should have scouted the application
with scorn, as coming from a people
who are too slow to do the South jus
tice, when a negro runs away aud takes
refuge with them ; and should have
said to Mayor Tiemaun, mind your own
business, sir, and we will take care of
ours. But, no, Governor Brown finds
out, all of a sudden, what he ought to
have known before, if true, that the
lotteries were illegal and proceeds to as
[ sist a New York policeman to execute
Georgia laws! Was there ever any
thing so supremely ridiculous ?
The New Hampshire papers are
agitating thequestionofaUnited States
Senator to succeed John P. Hale.
The crops in France are said to be 15
days in advance of ordinary years, and
grain is rapidly falling in price.
I lit Madison, at the- resident's of Mr. R ftoltl
hor*, on the 27th of May, by W. Woods, Fh, .
Dr.H.H. O. I.uxgkilv, of Franklin, Macon Co.,
‘ 'Till Carolina, anti Mrs. Asm !>. Woolman, of
Madison—both recenUy resldontjof miadelplda
I HCuuttArf litfeliipce.
latest dates from Havana'.*.. *.*.
i of ton Statement*
The Charleston Conner, of the 28th, makes
the receipts and stocks of Cotton the present
season, as follows: The receipts amount to
1 2,895,730, showing an increase or 56,682ba1cs •
stack on hand <6 029 bales, after deducting
W 8.790 hales from Mobile and New Orlean= Sea
Island Cotton.
Augusta Provision Market.
Reported by It. PHII.POT, Clerktf the Market
J . KKTAIL PRICKS.
i Beef, on foot wholesale 6 (5) £» « 4
j „ H /« s <•« do 8
P/ 01 retail 10® 12>,'
I Hutton 9 © 10
P™* «o® m»
1ea1.... 10® 12*
Corn Meal 80®80
sweet Potatoes 190®200
Chicken.- :to®36
T“ r pcys UW®UO
Pucks . 3t r l( g 40
Com, by the I*oa«l 707 ft
i F-»«Her, by the Load, y 100.. . .90 fa) 100
j New Oats, > 100 75
♦ *.
| CLEVELAND, Tenn., May 28 —The produce
market remains unchanged. What 60 cents;
(•orn .5.* t o 4')c ; Bacon 9to Do, nog round, with
j light sales, aud but little demand,
pipping Intelligence.
EVENING DISPATCH OFFICE, )
Augusta, Saturday, May 29, p. M. )
j Coimv—The sales since yesterday, 2 o'clock,
amount to 413 bales: 11 at 10, 370 at 11, 12 at
II V,. 20 at 11 »ts. Receipts 136 bales.
i The demand is rather bettor to day, but the
! rollers w ill not submit to the view's of buyers,
j We omit goueral quotations.
< HaRIaKSTOX, May 28.—Arrived, stuisbiplsa
bel, Havana ; steamship George’s Creek, B.ilti
more ; bark Laconia. Boston ; schr John Roe,
New York.
j At Quarantine, Ship Hampden, Cadi/. •
Cleared, 8p bark Nueva Rosalie, Barcelona ;
J schr Laura Frances, N York.
*
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